SWRK 1002H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Unemployment Benefits, Social Insurance, Voluntary Sector

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Key concepts: globalization, social welfare client as customer/consumer oppression, voluntary sector, social policy, economic recession, basic needs, low income cut-off (lico) unemployment insurance -> employment insurance workfare , special interest groups , residual versus institutional. In an educator"s guide for changing the world: methods, models and materials for anti-oppression and social justice workshops (pp. 47). Exploitation: work/labour which benefits the dominant group, economically/ financially, socially, politically, dominant group sets terms of exchange i. e. labour costs low/profits high, deepens inequalities. Marginalization: category of people isolated from social, political and economic spaces based on ideologies, assumptions, stereotypes and prejudices marginalized depend on dominant group for support. Keeps those in poverty for example if you receive a month from welfare, you will not become wealthy from that, you will remain at the same level. Powerlessness: those without power or access to power have little or no autonomy, authority over their work or lives, few options for developing skills to promote themselves.

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